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In Duclair today, I toured the Saint-Wandrille abbey. No one was allowed to go inside, for fear of disturbing the nuns. Abbeys always worried me. So quiet. After we(it's not a private cruise)toured some abbey ruins, without the nuns, so I could breathe without freaking ...

Today was our day visit to Rouen, about an hour and a quarter by main line train from Paris, and well worth the time and cost: it is a lovely city, with lots to see and enjoy. The original purpose of the visit was simply to see Caravaggio's Flagellation of the Christ, but we soon realised that the town itself is worth seeing. The art gallery has much else in it of course, and Joy was again in her element drooling over all her old boy friends (and sighing over a few ...

A dull drizzly day, with a strong wind still blowing. At least we're on the Tunnel - not a good day to be on a ferry! We got to the Tunnel nice and early as usual, and as usual they put us on the 10.50am instead of the 12.20 - part of our cunning plan. The weather in Calais was much the ...

1 oct -Rouen Busy looking around at shops. Lunch at the Vietnam cuisine the unique way of weighing your selection of dish .. Dinner at La mien, a nice shanghai la mien, entree were nice especially the seaweed and the mushroom ( Jamur kuping ) stir fry seafood noodle Not mentioning the handsome waiter that Cik Mey like so much ...

Our first stop of the day was the cute little village of Rouen. It feels as If everywhere we go has been ripped right out of a picture book. It is not the plastic, artificial reality of Disney but the decayed beauty of reality and I can not get enough if it. The cities are built around these grand cathedrals that the peoples lives revolved completely around. It is impossible to find a spot where you can not find ...